At the beginning there is nothing. A desolate land far away from T.S. Eliot’s modern metaphysics and more similar to the media representation in the heart of a TV [...]
There is a story which is divided into two parts like two consciences which interlace with each other, fading into each other and embracing each other. Shuji Terayana, a [...]
The New American Cinema - NAC, represents one of the most meaningful artistic experience within the indipendent cinematography of the 60s, free from Hollywoodian empires and a mythopoetic all-engaging [...]
The incredibile influence of Derek Jarman's cinema is considered as an unavoidable background for every research on the new visual languages from the end of the '70s. His ability [...]
In the works of video artist Douglas Gordon - one of the most important visual artists of his generation, awarded with the prestigious Turner Prize in 1996 when he [...]
Let me begin this text with an hypothesis, and join two elements that will help us fathom some important works of the British video artist Tacita Dean, born in [...]
I would like to begin this presentation of the work of a great French video artist and experimental filmmaker Philippe Parreno, with two specific terms: 'acquisition' and 'definition'. These [...]
In Turin, at the Fondazione Mario Merz, a retrospective of one of the most visionary and discussed contemporary artists, Matthew Barney, has just ended. In a site-specific set, composed [...]